6 August 2023

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Read Slowly

Have you ever set a goal for how many books you want to read in a year? If so, you’re not alone. Many people set that goal and some even compete with each other to see who can read the most books. To achieve the goal or win the competition, a lot of people wou…

Victoria's Blog

We seem to have this fascination with combining machines, our mechanical and arguably innately unhumanlike inventions, with our own sense of humanness, and visa versa - creating machines that act, think, and interact like us. Why? Is it the human need to devel…

Should we stop writing functions?

… and use lambdas instead? That is, instead of: int sum(int a, int b) { return a + b; } You’d write: constexpr auto sum = [](int a, int b) -> int { return a + b; }; Hear me out.

Silencing the alarm on aspartame and cancer

Last month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer designated the low-calorie sweetener aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic,” quickly leading to concern, confusion, and criticism.

Injust games - God and Legions

While working on Gods and Legions I thought about “what is I do not like Gods and legions to have?”. Obviously, the bad things are infinite, but some bad characteristics are already named and are “easy” to not do. I love old games. Yesterday I was playing Doub…

Why the words in “CAP theorem” are so confusing! – LINISNIL

The word “consistency” is extremely overloaded in the realm of distributed systems. In CAP, consistency means that every read reflects the most recent write. This is also known as single-copy consistency or strict / strong consistency. Data is replicated to mu…

How I org in 2023 ·

I’ve been pretty much living in org-mode for 6 or 7 years now1. It’s my exocortex, second brain, second mind, mind palace, pensive, and personal knowledge management system2. The features and tools I use as well as how I organize my files has changed quite a b…

Hedonism, Asceticism and the Hermetic Answer

The modern world more or less gives you the philosophical choice of either Hedonism or Asceticism. You never really hear it in those terms, but that's how it is. Hedonism living for pleasure. Your default lifestyle is eating whatever, watching Netflix and play…

3 Proven Ways To Improve Dev Focus

Focus is the most precious thing your developers have. Here are 3 musts for every engineering org.

Elevate Your .NET Testing Strategy #3: Fixtures separation

In the previous article, we delved into a critical issue that arises when handling growing complexities in test data creation. As test data becomes more elaborate, the readability of tests suffers, and they become vulnerable to maintenance challenges. To comba…

GIT - Getting Started

In this video we will be going to be exploring GIT and Github, and all of the basic commandsSupport me on Patreon to access the source code:https://www.patre...

My take on HTMX with ASP.NET Core

Working examples of using HTMX with ASP.NET Core.Source: https://github.com/T0shik/HyperTextExpressionKhalid's work: https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/guide/t...

Introducing MK-1 — MK-1

We are pushing the performance of AI models to the limit of what’s physically possible. Our software package MKML is designed to reduce inference cost with just a few lines of code. Contact us to become an early partner.

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Hot Reload in Windows Applications - Nick's .NET Travels

In a previous post on the topic of hot reload I discussed using the CreateNewOnMetadataUpdate attribute to force updating of entire classes, rather than patching existing types. This makes hot reload more resilient but does require additional logic in order to…